چورباجی
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- چوربهجی (çorbacı)
Etymology[edit]
چوربا (çorba, “soup”) + ـجی (-cı, “occupational suffix”)
Noun[edit]
چورباجی • (çorbacı)
- (literally) soup vendor
- (military) official title for a colonel of the Janissaries
- (rare) official receiver and entertainer of guests in a village
- conventional title applied Christian members of the rural elite, heads of villages and rich peasants in the Ottoman Empire
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: çorbacı (“soup vendor, Christian member of the rural elite”)
- Bulgarian: чорбаджия (čorbadžija, “wealthy peasant, kulak, boss”)
- Greek: τσορμπατζής (tsormpatzís, “wealthy peasant, village mayor”)
- Armenian: չորպաճի (čʻorpači, “wealthy peasant”) (Western Armenian), Չորբաջյան (Čʻorbaǰyan)
- Macedonian: чорбаџија (čorbadžija, “wealthy peasant, boss”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: чорбаџија (“wealthy peasant”)
- Latin script: čorbadžija
References[edit]
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چورباجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 478
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چورباجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 735